APPLE IPHONE 10 / IPHONE X
The new iPhone X/iPhone 10 unlocks with Face ID, has the largest display ever seen on an iPhone and dumps the home button - but it's just too pricey.
The iPhone X is one of the most controversial, talked about smartphones in years and, for once, it isn’t because it’s simply the latest Apple handset.
It’s because it heralds a number of firsts: it’s the first time Apple has used OLED technology in one of its smartphone screens; it’s the first time it has removed the home button; and it’s the first time the firm has used facial recognition as a means of authentication.
Perhaps most controversially, though, the iPhone X represents the very first time Apple has hit the £1,000 mark for a base-model iPhone. The question is, who’s going to spend this much money on a phone?
Apple iPhone x review: Need to know
That's very much a question at the end of this review. For now, however, I'm going to concentrate on the phone’s key features. And it's the screen that makes the iPhone X so special. As I already mentioned, it’s the first time Apple has employed OLED technology, but it’s also the first iPhone to remove the big bezels from above and below the screen.
Inside is Apple’s A11 Bionic processor, which we’ve already seen in the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus, a choice of 64GB or 128GB of storage and dual cameras on the rear of the phone, too.
Apple iPhone X review: Price and competition
As discussed previously, this is the first base model iPhone that has cost more than £1,000. That’s for the 64GB version; the 256GB version costs £1,149 (ouch!). That's an awful lot of money by anyone's standards – as much as a decent ultraportable laptop – and there are no other phones that come close in price currently on the market (save the slightly crazy Huawei Mate 10 Pro Porsche Design edition).The phone that comes the nearest is the Samsung Galaxy Note 8, but even that is £220 less expensive than the iPhone X at around £770 and it comes with a pressure-sensitive stylus. Perhaps the iPhone X’s strongest competition, however, is that which comes from within. The iPhone 8 Plus, although old-fashioned and terribly bulky for a 5.5in phone, is still brilliant and starts at £799. The only practical thing it lacks compared with the iPhone X is Face ID.Alas, the iPhone X’s spiritual competitor is the Samsung Galaxy S8, which has a near identical screen size and set of features. I say alas, because you can buy a Samsung Galaxy S8 today for the Tidy sum of around £520 – that’s half the price.
Apple iPhone X review: Design
The iPhone X is available in two colours: white, with a chrome silver trim, and black, with a shiny dark grey trim. Neither, to my eyes, look as good as a £1,000 smartphone ought to. Next to the “mocha brown” Mate 10 Pro I’ve been using for the past couple of weeks, it’s positively dour. The trim on my white review model starts picking up greasy fingerprints the moment I pick it up, quickly losing its box-fresh lustre, as does the rather plain white rear.
There’s no surprise about the positioning of the phone’s various physical elements. Aside from the lack of home button and the power button, which has moved around to the right edge, they’re all in the places you’d expect. Other things from previous generations also remain in place, with dust and waterproofing to the IP67 standard and no 3.5mm headphone jack. I’m still of the opinion, incidentally, that removing it was a misstep.
Likewise, I’m not convinced by the camera module on the rear. It’s large, unsightly and juts out around a millimetre. This completely unbalances the phone when it’s placed on a flat surface, so the phone rattles whenever you swipe or tap. The infamous “notch” on the front, which so many have scoffed at, doesn’t bother me at all. Quite the opposite, in fact: I feel it lends the phone character – an identifiable X factor if you like – that makes it look different to most other current flagships. Lord knows it needs something to help it stand out.
The positives are the same as they are with every other 18:9 aspect ratio, low-bezel phone I’ve used: it a high screen-to-body ratio, which essentially means more screen real-estate for a smaller size of phone. So, while it might have a larger 5.8in screen than anything we’ve seen on an iPhone before, it’s considerably smaller and lighter than the 5.5in design Apple has been using for the past three years. And those trademark rounded corners and edges mean the iPhone X is just as comfortable to hold and slide into a tight pocket.
Apple iPhone X review: Face ID
The big consequence of filling almost the entire front of the iPhone X with screen is that there’s no longer any room for a home button on the front nor, surprisingly, a fingerprint reader. Instead, Apple is moving to a new biometric approach, with Face ID the primary means of unlocking the phone and using Apple Pay. Face ID works by using the phone’s “True Depth” camera to project infrared dots onto your face – 30,000 of them, in fact – and producing a 3D model of your face that it stores internally alongside a two-dimensional infrared image. It then uses the same sensor to scan your face, match it against the stored model and unlock your phone – in a fraction of a second. Apple claims the likelihood of someone who isn’t you unlocking your phone using the new system is one in a million, making it more secure than Touch ID but what is it like to use? I’ve been testing it out for a few days now and I’m rather impressed by the system as a whole. Setting it up is as simple as enrolling a fingerprint on an iPhone 8 Plus. Just line up your face in the provided circular loupe and move it around so the sensor can build up a full model of the planes and contours of your mug. Do this a couple of times and you’re ready to rock and roll.
iPhone X / 10 review: Performance and display quality
Performance, as always seems to be the case with current generation iPhones, is superlative. The new Apple a11 Bionic chip is inside, coupled with 3 GB of RAM, and it produces very similar benchmark results to the iPhone 8 Plus. So it’s basically faster than any other phone on the market in terms of its CPU and graphics processing grunt.In really demanding games I’d expect the iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone 8 to marginally outperform it, but by and large the 60 Hz refresh rate of the iPhone X’s edge-to-edge screen limits frame rates across the range.
iPhone X review: Camera
The camera is great, though, and for all the same good reasons as the iPhone 8 Plus. It isn’t the quite best phone camera on the market, but it does a mighty fine job of taking reliable photos and crisp, steady 4K 60fps video.As with the iPhone 8 Plus, the X has two cameras on the rear, both 12 megapixels, both using Sony sensors. One is a wide angle camera, the other a telephoto. The key difference between this and the iPhone 8 Plus is that the telephoto camera has a slightly brighter aperture at f/2.4. It’s optically stabilished, too, just like the main f/1.8 camera.
All Most iPhone X / 10 Is Best Of The World .
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iPhone X review For Bangladesh ! Great phone, but Cost £1,000
Reviewed by Jahidul Islam
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December 19, 2017
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Reviewed by Jahidul Islam
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December 19, 2017
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Amazine!
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